Police find cocaine on Scott Weiland’s tour bus

Detectives discovered the controlled substance after searching the tour bus where the former Stone Temple Pilots and Velvet Revolver singer was found dead on Thursday night.

They also arrested Thomas Delton Black – identified by U.S. media as a band member – on charges of drug possession, as the music world paid tribute to what some called a legend of “grunge” music. The Hennepin County medical examiner confirmed Mr. Weiland’s death in a news release Friday, saying he died at 8:30 p.m. Thursday at the Country Inn & Suites at the Mall of America in Bloomington.

Mr. Weiland’s current band, Scott Weiland & the Wildabouts, had been scheduled to play at the Medina Entertainment Center in nearby Medina, Minn.

Three years later, the group parted ways with Weiland, posting a brief message on the band’s website that said he had been “officially terminated”.

Scott Weiland and The Wildabouts performing at Gramercy Theatre in NY on March 10, 2015.

Weiland’s former Stone Temple Pilot bandmates – Eric Kretz and brothers Dean and Robert DeLeo – released a statement Friday thanking Weiland “for sharing your life with us”.

The band and Weiland did not have the most harmonious relationship. “The memories are many, and they run deep for us”.

But at the height of Stone Temple Pilots’ fame in the 1990s, he was known for commanding large stages with one of his signature moves: shouting lyrics through a megaphone held up to his microphone. We know amidst the good and the bad you struggled, time and time again.

In 2002, Weiland was recruited as the frontman for rock supergroup Velvet Revolver, formed by ex-Guns N’ Roses stars Slash, Duff McKagan and Matt Sorum. “It’s what made you who you were”.

It has surfaced that Scott Weiland’s immediate cause of death was cardiac arrest, reports Metal Injection. “You were gifted beyond words”. A cause of death hasn’t been released. The band-written single “Slither” won a Grammy for best hard rock performance. Singer Ryan Adams tweeted “Universe, please take care of him”, while filmmaker Judd Apatow said watching Weiland perform was “some of my favorite concerts of all time”. He pleaded guilty to felony heroin possession in 1998. After their divorce, he was married to the model Mary Forsberg from 2000 to 2007; the couple have two children, Noah and Lucy.